Supreme Court Showdown: For-profit clinics vs. Medicare
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For-profit clinics vs. Medicare"
Public event: March 27, 4:00-5:30PM
University of Victoria - Room 125, Engineering/Computer Science Building
Hosted by the UVic School of Public Health and Social Policy
March 31 Day of Action Events in BC
Campbell River/Comox Valley — Rally at 3:30pm outside the office of John Duncan, Conservative MP for Vancouver Island North (1250F Cedar Street, Campbell River).Contact: Rich Hagensen, Council of Canadians,This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., 250-286-3019
Kamloops — Meet at the Smorg deli by 3:30pm to march (about 3 blocks) to Conservative MP Cathy Macleod’s office. We will have speakers and signs and we will present her with one thousand signed postcards calling for a renewed and improved Canadian Health Accord. Contact: Rick Turner 250-819-5694 or Barb Nederpel 250-320-1635, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..">This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Organized by: Kamloops Health Coalition, Kamloops Chapter of the Council of Canadians, Kamloops Retired Teachers and Kamloops HEU
Kelowna - Rally at MP Ron Cannan’s office, Capri Mall, 114-1835 Gordon Dr., Kelowna, 12-12:30PM. For more information, contact Ken Robinson at 604-838-3844 or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Nanaimo -11am Information Session at The Vault Cafe, 499 Wallace Street and 12pm Street Action at Terminal & Commercial. Contact Paul Manly at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..">This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Princeton — Community rally at noon at Princeton’s Veterans Square. Show your support for public health care by bringing red umbrellas to the rally.Contact: Ed Staples, Support Our Health Care (SOHC), This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., 250-295-0822
Richmond - Rally at MP Alice Wong’s office, 360-5951 No. 3 Rd., Richmond, 3:30-4PM. For more information, contact David Huespe at 604-619-5124 or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Surrey - Rally at MP Nina Grewal’s office, 201-15957 84 Ave., Surrey, 12-12:30PM.For more information,contact Kelly Aujla at 604-626-8806 or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Vancouver - Rally at MP Wai Young’s office 6406 Victoria Dr., Vancouver, 9-9:30AM. For more information, contact Bev Trynchy at 604-837-1433 or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
For more information about Day of Action Rallies across the country, click HERE .
Latest News:
B.C. Budget won’t meet health care needs as expiry of health accord nears: more innovation required, say public health care advocates. Read full press release HERE
Constitutional Challenge to Medicare to go to trial in 2014
We risk losing Canadian Medicare as we know it.
Dr. Brian Day, owner of Vancouver’s for-profit Cambie Surgery Centre and the leading proponent
of privatized health care, has launched a constitutional challenge to break Medicare via the courts
and establish a US-style system in Canada.
Parties in the case are calling this the most significant constitutional challenge in Canadian history.
The BC Health Coalition and Canadian Doctors for Medicare are interveners in this case. This means that we are participating directly in court to defend Medicare.
The clock is ticking. Legal preparations have already begun with the trial set for fall 2013.
Though this case has been launched in B.C., it will almost certainly advance to the Supreme Court of Canada.
The Supreme Court’s decision would apply across the country – and could be one that
destroys Medicare in Canada.
This challenge aims to break Medicare in Canada by striking down provincial health legislation
that limits the for-profit delivery of medically necessary services, claiming that these rules violate
the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
Together we need to make sure that this legal attack is defeated.
The future of our public health care lies in the balance.
Find out more and help spread the word HERE
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Thank you to the BC Health Coalition community for sending thousands of messages to
Fraser and Vancouver Coastal health authorities telling them to scrap plans to bill seniors
a monthly fee to use wheelchairs in our public residential care homes.
Thanks to your action, Vancouver Coastal has backed down from charing fees, citing public
backlash.
Now we need to make sure Fraser Health does the same.